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Synaesthesia - When the senses overlap

A surprising number of people are able to 'taste' colors or words. People with Synesthesia are not crazy, nor are they "imagining things." Synesthesia should not to be confused with magic, occult, or "New Age." Synesthesia is a neurological condition.

Some people with Synesthesia (called Synesthetes) identify colors with different letters or numbers. Feelings are also sometimes associated with music and certain colors. A new type of Synesthesia has been discovered in which a person hears sounds associated with lights. Synesthesia seems to have a genetic base that can also be altered by life experiences.

It's interesting to me that many people with synesthesia are artists, musicians, or others with creative talents. I wonder how many of use have some degree of Synesthesia ourselves, but we may not be aware of it. Personally, I have had some instances of experiencing Synesthesia, but some people feel it all the time. I think when a person has some Synesthesia, it can be a strength.

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Video About Synesthesia

The man in this video says Synesthesia is why he has always been able to memorize music quickly, is a good speller because he associates colors with letters, and automatically knows when a composition for a photograph seems "right."

Synesthesia and Art Links

"Art and Synesthesia: in search of the synesthetic experience" by Dr. Hugo Heyrman: Art and Synesthesia: in search of the synesthetic experience. Research and theory on the future of the senses. Homepage of the Belgian Synesthesia Association, First International Conference on Art and Synesthesia, Primer congreso internacional sobre arte y sinestesia.

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Synesthesia in the News

Psychic Healers May Simply Have Synesthesia: People who claim to see the 'aura' of others - and subsequently claim they can modify them - may actually have synesthesia, according to new research. Synesthesia is believed to occur due to cross-wiring in the brain; synesthetes have more synaptic ...
Slings and … White Arrows: The background: Musicians often pay lip service to synesthesia ? a neurological condition where those affected, in their appreciation of something, sometimes confuse their senses, so they smell a colour or taste a sound. But few if any of those artists ...
You have to see this show, you hear?: By Tina George Synesthesia. According to the Free Online Dictionary, one of the meanings of this word is: ?A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualisation of a ...
Debunking 'auras' and other magic in Spain: Emilio Gomez is the supervisor for Oscar Iborra's doctoral thesis, regarding special infrequent types of ?synesthesia,? which in ancient Greek is ?together? and ?sensation.? Essentially, it is how one sensory or cognitive pathway involuntarily affects ...

Synesthesia on Blogs

Psychic Healers May Simply Have Synesthesia: People who claim to see the 'aura' of others - and subsequently claim they can modify them - may actually have synesthesia, according to new research. Synesthesia is believed to occur due to cross-wiring in the brain; synesthetes have more synaptic ...
Slings and … White Arrows: The background: Musicians often pay lip service to synesthesia ? a neurological condition where those affected, in their appreciation of something, sometimes confuse their senses, so they smell a colour or taste a sound. But few if any of those artists ...
You have to see this show, you hear?: By Tina George Synesthesia. According to the Free Online Dictionary, one of the meanings of this word is: ?A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualisation of a ...
Debunking 'auras' and other magic in Spain: Emilio Gomez is the supervisor for Oscar Iborra's doctoral thesis, regarding special infrequent types of ?synesthesia,? which in ancient Greek is ?together? and ?sensation.? Essentially, it is how one sensory or cognitive pathway involuntarily affects ...